[Lingtyp] A "Swadesh List" of Ideophone semantic categories

[Françoise Rose]

Hi Ian,
Here is a list of general actions or states that are expressed (often more specifically) by Teko ideophones and that do not seem to fit in your current list.

Blowing
Be dark
Closed eyes / Open eyes
Grimace
Snoaring
Tearing
Entering /exiting
Winking
Shooting
Falling
Slip
Jumping
Go up/down
Push
Bubbles

You can read about Teko ideophones in my grammar. P. 400-409
Ros  Rose, Françoise. Grammaire de l'émérillon Teko, Une Langue Tupi-Guarani de Guyane Française. Langues et Sociétés d'Amérique Traditionnelle 10. Louvain: Peeters, 2011.

Very best,
Françoise

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Objet : [Lingtyp] A "Swadesh List" of Ideophone semantic categories

Dear all,

I am currently trying to make a list of semantic categories of ideophones, in order to do a cross-linguistic comparison (for example, do ideophones whose meanings are related to brightness show similarity across different languages?)

Here's my list so far, created out of my intuition and previous literature.
I wonder if you have any meanings that you would like to add to or remove from the list.
The goal is to make a list of ideophone meanings so that most languages that have a sizeable ideophone inventory would have at least several ideophones that belong to each category.

Semantic Categories

Air

Anxiety

Bright

Clean

Clear-cut/Vivid

Crying

Dirty/Messy

Dry

Eating/Drinking

Fast

Flow

Friction

Hitting/Beating

Hungry/Thirsty

Laughter

Looking

Plenty

Ringing

Ripping/Cutting

Romantic

Rotation

Rough

Rupture

Scattering

Secretly

Shaking/Vibration

Slow/Lazy

Soft

Solid

Speaking

Stop

Walking/Running

Wet


I would appreciate any comments or advices.

>From Seoul,
Ian

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